Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2016
BTV’s Gene Richards Works to Keep Airport Aloft; High on the Sky: A Pilot Recounts Her Aeronautic Adventures; Prohibition Pig Brewhouse Celebrates First Year
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Up in the Air: Gene Richards Works to Keep the Airport Competitive
Eugene “Gene” Richards usually arrives at Burlington International Airport about an hour and a half after the first flight takes off at 5:20 a.m. He was on the job at 8 on a recent Wednesday morning, when shafts of weak winter sun were piercing the gray skies as snowplows cleared a thin coating of snow…
Obituary: Maurice L. Spaulding II, 1942-2016, Pepperell, Mass.
Maurice Lewis Spaulding II, 73, of Pepperell, Mass., died Thursday night, January 28, 2016, at Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin. He was married to Mrs. Charlene (Imbernino) Spaulding, with whom he would have celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary on July 29, 2016. Born in Chelmsford, Mass., on June 29, 1942, he was the son of…
Obituary: Dorothy Esther Ayers Caswell Ingalls, 1923-2016, Burlington/Jeffersonville
Dorothy Esther Ayers Caswell Ingalls – 93, a longtime resident of Burlington and more recently of Jeffersonville, passed away peacefully in the comfort of her home on Thursday morning, January 28, 2016. Born in Waterbury on January 14, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Max G. and Amy Elizabeth (Wheeler) Ayers. On November…
Obituary: Marie Rose Therriault, 1929-2016, Winooski
Marie Rose Therriault, 86, a life-long resident of Winooski, died peacefully in her home surrounded by family, on January 27, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer. Marie was born on February 11, 1929 to the late Edward and Theresa Delage. She married her late husband Henry Therriault Sr. on January 6, 1951 at St.…
Soundbites: Hip-Hop and the Blame Game
It’s been a rough few months for local hip-hop. In November, Noisey, the music arm of online news website VICE, published a piece called “Phorget Phish: Burlington’s Music Scene Goes Way Beyond Jam Bands and Ice Cream.” Written by freelancer Ray Padgett, the piece offered a lively, wide-angle view of the local scene. It gave…
Befriending Black Eagle
“So, you call yourself an atheist,” I said, picking up the conversation. For us cabbies, the first two weeks of January are typically the slowest of the year, and this year held true to form. The holiday season takes a toll on our customer base, both emotionally and financially. After New Year’s Eve, folks remain…
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Vermont Burlesque Festival [SIV429]
1/23/16: The Third Annual Vermont Burlesque Festival was held last weekend at ArtsRiot, the Barre Opera House and the Hilton Burlington. Over 75 performers from across the country, some local and some international, converged in the Green Mountains to warm up Vermonters, promote body positivity and share the art of the striptease. Eva checked out…
Medical Interpreters Speak for New American Patients
A woman rushes to a hospital after taking her baby’s temperature. In English, she tells the nurse that her child has been crying nonstop and is burning up. She begs to see a doctor. The nurse turns to her colleagues and other patients and speaks in an unidentifiable language, presumably asking if anyone understands English.…
Groennfell Meadery Celebrates Expansion With Feast Week
Groennfell Meadery co-owners Kelly and Ricky Klein have wanted to serve full pints of their honey-toned beverages since they opened their Colchester meadery in 2013. But, as the couple started looking into the first-class liquor license that would make that possible, their plan morphed into something bigger, says Kelly. The license requires that the establishment…
Sterling College Launches New American Farmstead School
Local foodies have been swooning since Craftsbury’s Sterling College announced its School of the New American Farmstead last week. Geared toward adult and other nontraditional students, the program includes a core curriculum of two-week courses taught by internationally recognized leaders in food, drink and agriculture. Former New York Times food critic and Gourmet editor Ruth…
Blue Stone Opens Second Pizzeria, in Waitsfield
Waterbury pizza shop the Blue Stone is opening a second location, in Waitsfield, on Wednesday, January 27. The new shop will serve exactly the same food as the original location — innovative seasonal creations and classics, all cooked in a brick oven. Same recipes, same specials, same methods: “It’s really just copy and paste,” says…
Taking to the Skies: Flight Instructor Kathy Daily
Name: Kathy Daily Town: Williston Job: Instructor, Vermont Flight Academy For Kathy Daily, a pilot’s license was a lifelong ticket to adventure. The 64-year-old Williston native began flying at 22. Over the past four decades, she’s flown more than 75 different airplanes and traveled to some of the remotest places on Earth. Some of those flights were…
The Boy
What can you say about a January horror movie with a PG-13 rating? That it helps sell a few jumbo popcorns during Hollywood’s dead season. That it gives the older kids something to do while Mom and Dad take the little ones shopping. That there’s something almost sweet about its efforts to scare you with…
Idan Raichel, At the Edge of the Beginning
(Cumbancha, CD, digital download) As composer and ringleader of the world-music group the Idan Raichel Project, Israeli singer-songwriter Idan Raichel brings together musicians from dozens of countries, from Ethiopia to Colombia to Germany. The group works in a variety of languages and instruments, creating a cross-cultural, genre-defying sound. In 2003, IRP broke onto the international…
Catching Up With Footings’ Eric Gagne
It’s a little-known fact that Waking Windows, the annual citywide indie-music festival in Winooski, actually has its roots across state lines in Peterborough, N.H. The small southern New Hampshire town is home to its own indie fest, the Thing in the Spring. Like WW, TITS — hey, it’s just the acronym — turns the bars,…
Doom Service, Live From Mount Doom
(Endless Bummer Records, cassette, digital download) Doom Service live up to their diabolical pun of a name. The Burlington band is composed of musical monsters spawned from a stew of melodic punk, is inspired by old horror and sci-fi movie samples, and is seemingly motivated by a burning urge to have fun. The group’s latest…
A ‘Motel’ for the Homeless Fights to Stay in Shelburne
Harbor Place looks like so many other no-frills two-star motels that line Shelburne Road. The only thing that appeared out of the ordinary last Wednesday was someone pushing a child on a swing set on the snow-covered grounds. But Shelburne officials see a problem. They say the facility, which caters to homeless people, is attracting…
Free Will Astrology (1/27/16)
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good…
The Revenant
Revenge, it’s said, is a dish best served cold. In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s symphony of savagery, The Revenant, it’s served frozen, bloody and without mercy. Sometimes by a bear. It’s a stunning accomplishment on multiple fronts. For example: Weren’t we just speculating on the Oscar chances of Iñárritu’s stunning accomplishment Birdman? That the filmmaker created…
Art Review: ‘Navigating Memory, Exploring Place,’ BCA Center
Memory is an unreliable narrator. Never mind its nemesis, forgetting; even our most vivid recollections of the past are colored, at the very least, by emotion and our varying ability to make sense of them. While it’s true that an entire nation can share a memory — the twin towers falling on 9/11, for example…
A New Page: UVM President Revives Concerts With Link to Literature
Classical music enthusiast Tom Simone, who teaches literature at the University of Vermont, hit on a good idea in 2008. With UVM affiliate pianist Paul Orgel, he devised a concert series featuring music from the literary eras his students were studying: Messiaen for Second World War writing, Debussy for Proust, The Rite of Spring for…
Last-Ditch Pitch: Sanders and Clinton Try to Close the Deal
Near the end of the worst week of her latest bid for the presidency, Hillary Clinton tried on an unexpected, if all too familiar, guise: underdog. “I know what it’s like to run from behind in New Hampshire,” she told supporters Friday night in a Concord hotel ballroom, her voice rising to overpower the applause.…
Sharon Isbin Joins VSO in Masterworks Concert
The last time Sharon Isbin played with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra was in 1992. According to VSO publicity, “Some of us have been counting the minutes until her return.” That’s a lot of minutes. But patience will be rewarded this weekend, when the diva of classical guitar appears as the guest artist in the orchestra’s…
Letters to the Editor (1/27/16)
Cruelty at Home However much I enjoy reading endlessly about today’s soapbox politicians [“Trump Roast,” January 13], what got my attention in that issue of Seven Days was the ad from Protect Our Wildlife VT [on page 35] showing a bobcat caught in a leghold trap. How is it possible in 21st-century Vermont that leghold…
Design Museum Heralds 50 Years of Prickly Mountain Architecture
Inside a ramshackle 1845 house beside the covered bridge in Waitsfield is a design maven’s heaven: the Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design. There, an antique, wide-mouthed robot about six inches high will swallow a quarter, the museum’s admission fee for children. A sleek black 1934 DeSoto Airflow car shares a room with portrait photos of…
As State-Mandated Recycling Kicks In, the Market for Materials Slides
Members of the executive board and staff of the Chittenden Solid Waste District sat around a table, their documents scattered among three pizzas and an assortment of soft drinks. Most everyone ignored the snacks, but in fact their business is all about the materials in which they were delivered: paper, pizza boxes and aluminum cans.…
Chandler Presents a Reading of a Classic ‘Gay Play’
It’s a shame that Love! Valour! Compassion! is just a one-night stand this week, presented by Vermont Pride Theater at the Chandler Music Hall. When a show is billed as “One summer. Eight men. Complications…,” you gotta assume that entertainment is at hand. Indeed, Terrence McNally’s dramedy won a Tony for best play in 1995,…
I Love My Husband, But I Don’t Want to Have Sex Anymore
Dear Athena, I’ve been married for almost 10 years, and my husband and I have three kids. We just had our third child a little over a year ago. Life is really busy now, with my job and the kids, and I feel like there isn’t any time for us [as a couple]. I also…
Poetry Review: ‘Steel’ by Alison Prine
In her debut collection, Steel, Burlington poet and psychotherapist Alison Prine constructs a sharp portrait of grief and winds through her own life in pursuit of ever-open questions. Winner of the San Diego-based Cider Press Review’s annual Book Award in 2014, the book includes an introduction by the contest’s judge, Jeffrey Harrison. He notes, “Two…
Whitewash: ‘Investigators’ Give Sorrell a Pass
Updated January 27, 2016, at 7:48 p.m. Bill Sorrell, it seems, is an innocent man. At least, that’s the impression gleaned from media coverage of a report issued Friday by a panel of prosecutors charged with investigating the state’s top law enforcement official. “Special investigator clears Vermont attorney general,” WCAX-TV proclaimed, echoing language used in…
Dead but Not Gone: Some Bodies Linger at Medical Examiner’s Office
The door to Cooler B opened, releasing a strong, rotting smell. Roughly 15 bodies lay on tiered steel racks in the refrigerated vault at the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington. A decomposing foot protruded from the sheet covering one body, suggesting the corpse had been there for a while. Every year, a small…
Winning Ticket: A ‘yes’ vote for Man with a Plan
Originally published January 31, 1996. It’s hard to imagine a Player-style pitch for John O’Brien’s new film, Man With a Plan. A retired Vermont dairy farmer runs for Congress — and wins — thanks to a remarkably dexterous dog? How about Being There meets The Candidate meets “America’s Favorite Home Videos”? This homespun docudrama operates on the same underdog appeal…
Talking Brews with Prohibition Pig’s Nate Johnson
Nate Johnson was working as an economist when he met Chad Rich. At the time, Rich ran the bar at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth. Johnson was a regular, and the two found common ground in beer geekery. Johnson’s homebrewing habit blossomed into a healthy obsession, even as Rich was dreaming up the restaurant (and later,…
Bessery’s Quality Market to Rebuild and Expand
Changes are in the works for Bessery’s Quality Market in Burlington. The family business at 1398 North Avenue is currently a large hole in the ground. Owners Bryan and Kelly Bessery have contracted with BlackRock Construction in Colchester to build the new Bessery’s, something they’ve wanted to do for 10 years. “There was a lot…
Spice Traders’ Kitchen Turns Up the Heat in Winooski
Visit the Spice Traders’ Kitchen, a cozy Winooski joint serving southeast Asian cuisine, and you’ll see owners Alyssa Vigneault and Sudershan Adhikari working together as if they’ve known each other their entire lives. Standing side by side, woks in hand, they seamlessly match each other’s quick, measured actions. Vigneault eyes her wok, gives it a…
